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Bug 608668 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9 regression: failed to load wlwifi-7260-17.ucode with error -2
Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9 regression: failed to load wlwifi-7260-17.ucode...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...
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Reported: 2017-02-08 21:51 UTC by EoD
Modified: 2017-02-09 20:08 UTC (History)
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Description EoD 2017-02-08 21:51:17 UTC 
The current stable kernel 4.9 fails to load iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode. This worked fine in the latest unstable version of sys-kernel/gentoo-source-4.8!

I have sys-kernel/linux-firmware-99999999 installed.

[    0.974762] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[    0.974763] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
[    0.976725] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[    0.976730] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!

See the gentoo-forums URL above for more details.
Comment 1 EoD 2017-02-09 20:08:15 UTC 
The issue was that the firmware of the error message was not built into the kernel:

I fixed it by making sure that I had the following options set:

CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y 
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode" 
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" 

I instead used the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode" by accident and didn't check as the dmesg error message complained about iwlwifi-7260--17.ucode